Definitions for classes

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Spelling: [klas, klahs]

IPA: /klæs, klɑs/

Classes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in classes (acelsss).

Definitions for classes

noun

1. a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort:
2. a group of students meeting regularly to study a subject under the guidance of a teacher:
3. the period during which a group of students meets for instruction.
4. a meeting of a group of students for instruction.
5. a classroom.
6. a number of pupils in a school, or of students in a college, pursuing the same studies, ranked together, or graduated in the same year:
7. a social stratum sharing basic economic, political, or cultural characteristics, and having the same social position:
8. the system of dividing society; caste.
9. social rank, especially high rank.
10. the members of a given group in society, regarded as a single entity.
11. any division of persons or things according to rank or grade:
12. excellence; exceptional merit:
13. Hinduism. any of the four social divisions, the Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Shudra, of Hindu society; varna. Compare caste (def 2).
14. Informal. elegance, grace, or dignity, as in dress and behavior:
15. any of several grades of accommodations available on ships, airplanes, and the like:
16. Informal. the best or among the best of its kind:
17. Biology. the usual major subdivision of a phylum or division in the classification of organisms, usually consisting of several orders.
18. British University. any of three groups into which candidates for honors degrees are divided according to merit on the basis of final examinations.
19. drafted or conscripted soldiers, or persons available for draft or conscription, all of whom were born in the same year.
20. Grammar. form class.
21. Ecclesiastical. classis.
22. (in early Methodism) one of several small companies, each composed of about 12 members under a leader, into which each society or congregation was divided.
23. Statistics. a group of measurements that fall within a specified interval.
24. Mathematics. a set; a collection.
25. the classes, the higher ranks of society, as distinguished from the masses.
26. the organization of pastors and elders that governs a group of local churches; a presbytery.
27. the group of churches governed by such an organization.

adjective

1. Informal. of high quality, integrity, status, or style:

Verb phrases

1. class up, Informal. to improve the quality, tone, or status of; add elegance, dignity, style, etc., to:

verb (used with object)

1. to place or arrange in a class; classify:

verb (used without object)

1. to take or have a place in a particular class:

Origin of classes

1590-1600; earlier classis, plural classes Latin: class, division, fleet, army; singular class back formation from plural

Examples for classes

Where it is most painful is precisely where it does most harm, among the classes we call professional.

"I'd like to recite English in one of your classes, Emma," smiled Grace.

He was no teacher, and he lacked the tact required in getting along with his classes.

There are many uneducated preachers who move the classes the clergy cannot touch.

Between these two classes of students there prevails perpetual hostility.

You and every other boy in your classes ought to thoroughly ashamed of yourselves.

But Bratton himself has granted that black people “of all classes” have told him they fear the police.

Many dance instructors register their classes at gyms and teach women or men (separately) under the name of aerobics.

The summer before classes began, she decided to take a few sets of pictures with her friends.

But news of the classes is spread mainly by word of mouth, and participants bring along their friends and families.